{Thinking} it’s been a really weird and sad week in the blogging world with the sudden death of Kate from WitWitWoo. The way the community has gathered round to support her sons and build each other up has been fabulous. Check out #bemorewitwitwoo on Instagram to catch up. I don’t remember which conference/event I met […]

{Thinking} it’s been a really weird and sad week in the blogging world with the sudden death of Kate from WitWitWoo. The way the community has gathered round to support her sons and build each other up has been fabulous. Check out #bemorewitwitwoo on Instagram to catch up. I don’t remember which conference/event I met […]

Time for an update on the Bloglovin situation. As you may have seen if you’re on social media (and if you’re not, how did you get here anyway? 😉 ) Bloglovin have made a statement that the canonical URL pointing to their site was an oversight, it’s all been fixed, and everything is hunky dory. […]

Many bloggers use bloglovin as a way for their readers to follow them and see their content. When it was just an RSS aggregation service, this wasn’t a problem, and many bloggers have built up hundreds, or even thousands of followers on the service, and see a good amount of traffic from it. Right at […]

And what do searchers actually find? There’s all sorts of ways to analyse your blog content, traffic, search engine referrals and so on. Lots of them are terribly serious. Spreadsheets. Software. I daresay you can draw graphs. This isn’t serious at all. And I’m sorry, blogspot users, part of it is wordpress focussed, though I […]

I bought myself a new toy this week. Last week. I started playing with it this week. It’s a photo tent, with two lights, a camera stand and a bunch of backgrounds. Cool, isn’t it? I don’t have the first idea what I’m doing with it. Or what I want to do with it. I […]

Yes, I’m going to Blogfest 13. More than just going in fact, I’m on the panel mentioned above. As well as being available in the blog clinic again, to solve your technical blogging woes. I bring 10 years of experience in blogging, 9 of it on wordpress, as well as a background as a programmer. […]

I thought until a week or so back that I wasn’t going to make it to Cybher this year. I’d put a few very tentative calls out for a sponsor, but got no bites, and couldn’t quite see how I could afford it otherwise. And then there was this little post from Chris over at […]

I started this post, some hours agoyesterday… sitting in the car outside Big’s bassoon lesson. Tigerboy is sleeping in his carseat next to me. The laptop is perched precariously on my knee, just enough room to tilt the screen back, and I’m tethered to the wifi hotspot on my phone. And I’ve got 28 minutes […]